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IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY ELECTION Election of Members to the Administrative Committee for a Four-Year Term 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGING SCIENCES (Vote for One) MAGNUS DAHLBOM (S’84-M’87-SM’97) Magnus Dahlbom, Ph.D., is currently a Professor in the Ahmanson Biological Imaging Clinic and the Ahmanson Translational Imaging Division of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the faculty graduate adviser in the Biomedical Physics Graduate program where he is teaching classes in Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Instrumentation. In 1983 he joined the IEEE and the NPSS as a student member and is currently a senior member. He has served several terms on the NMISTC between 1995 and 2008 and was chairing this committee from 2004 to 2005. He was the Deputy MIC chair for the 1995 and the 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. He has been a regular active participant in this meeting since 1983, has served on the program committee since the 1995 and is an active reviewer for the IEEE TNS and other medical imaging journals. His research interests are in nuclear medicine imaging and instrumentation. Statement: I have been actively involved in the IEEE NSS and MIC conferences and related activities since the mid-90s. With my experience in committee work for the NMISTC I have a good insight into the organization of the NPSS society. The consistent high quality and success of the NSS and MIC are to a high degree the results of the voluntary committee work of the members NMISTC and the support these activities receives from the AdCom of the NPSS. The increased international involvement in the organization of the conferences in recent years is very exciting and is an effort that I will continue to support. If elected as a representative to the AdCom, I will do my best to represent the NMISTC, support and speak for the interest of its members to ensure that our conferences and educational activities will maintain a high status within the medical imaging community. STEVEN MEIKLE (M’96-SM’00) is the Professor of Medical Imaging Physics at the University of Sydney and Head of the Imaging Physics Laboratory at the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI). He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales in 1995. He was a medical physicist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney from 1987- 2004, a visiting research associate at the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics, UCLA School of Medicine from 1991-2 and a post doctoral research scientist at the MRC Cyclotron Unit in London from 1995-6, before joining the University of Sydney in 2004. He is best known for his contributions to the development of quantitative emission computed tomography and small animal imaging. He has published 7 book chapters and 165 research papers which have attracted more than 3,600 citations (h-index 31). He has served on the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (secretary and chair of awards sub-committee 2004-9) and the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee, organised IEEE short courses and workshops and was Deputy General Chair of the 2013 Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and 20th International Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and an Editorial Board member of Physics in Medicine and Biology. Statement: Throughout my career I have benefited enormously from the generosity of the IEEE medical imaging sciences community. I see membership of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Administrative Committee (AdCom) as a further opportunity to serve our scientific community. My previous roles on the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council and NSS-MIC-RTSD conference organising committees have given me insights into our needs in relation to conference finances, awards, membership and journal management, as well as the importance of our relationship with the radiation instrumentation technical committee. If elected to the NPSS AdCom, I will use my experience to advocate for policies and resources that ensure the continued vibrancy and sustainability of our conference, journals and membership, especially as we continue to experience significant growth in the Asia-Pacific region. TIMOTHY (TIM) TURKINGTON (M’95) is an Associate Professor in Radiology in the Duke University Medical Center with additional appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from DePauw University in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University in 1989, working in experimental particle physics (direct photon and charmonium production at Fermilab). He then entered nuclear medicine imaging as a post-doc at Duke, working on quantitative SPECT of I- 123, In-111, and At-211. Since 1993 he has worked in the Duke PET facility. He research has included PET and PEM instrumentation, quantitative corrections for PET and SPECT, and image reconstruction. He has also collaborated with investigators using PET for oncologic, cardiac, and neurologic research. He has trained post-docs, graduate students (PhD and MS) and undergraduates in PET research. He has 86 peer-reviewed publications. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies of the Duke Medical Physics Graduate Program. Statement: I have participated in the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference every year since 1991, either in person or through a trainee. I have been an IEEE and NPSS member for 20 years. I have benefitted greatly from the MIC meeting and from IEEE journals in which the presented material is published. The MIC has remained a unique opportunity to exchange new information about nuclear emission imaging with academic, industrial, and lab-based colleagues. I am honored to be a nominee to serve this community as an NMIS representative on the AdCom. As the MIC has increased in size and scope, I believe it has become particularly important to retain a focus on emission-based imaging and the technologies that are relevant to it. I am committed to working for the success of the MIC and our community in general by promoting our interests within the NPSS leadership. These interests include maintaining a viable and focused MIC, journals that will reach the widest possible audience, encouraging young scientists and engineers, recognizing the efforts more established members, and, of course, ultimately improving healthcare. PARTICLE ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Vote for One) STEPHEN MILTON (M’04-SM’13) completed his PhD in accelerator physics in 1989 at Cornell University, but his initial involvement in the field of accelerators and lasers began in 1980 with an internship at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on the University of California, Davis campus. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University where he and his colleagues have established an R&D and education program in Accelerator and Beam Science and Technology. His 33+ years of experience has allowed him to work in a variety of settings--industry, national laboratories, academia, and in Europe--providing him a unique view of the field. His employment background also includes stints at Sincrotrone Trieste (Director of FERMI@Elettra Project), Argonne National Laboratory (Senior Scientist, ANL Director of LCLS Project, Lead of LEUTL FEL project, Accelerator Physics Group Leader, 7-GeV Booster Synchrotron Ring Manager), Paul Scherrer Institute (Post Doctoral Fellow), and Bell Laboratories (Senior Technical Associate). He is an IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Prize winner, a senior member of the IEEE, a member and fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the Directed Energy Professionals Society. Statement: Since their inception particle accelerators have had a tremendous impact on the world and this impact will certainly grow with our vivid imagination and skills. It is with this record of the past and the hope of future impact that propels me to run for election as the PAST-TC representative of the IEEE AdCom. Particle accelerators and the ancillary systems that are a part of them consist of many technologies tightly linked to the expertise exhibited by the IEEE. The wide variety of areas that IEEE represents make it an ideal home for much of accelerator science and technology, but I feel we can still become more tightly integrated with IEEE and thus capitalize further on their ability to support us and further our field. We must innovate, produce, and teach, but we must also promote our field so that we obtain the resources to continue this work. The IEEE AdCom is an ideal platform for such promotion. If elected I will support, serve, and ensure a thriving accelerator science and technology community, one that fosters training, innovation, and production, and I would be honored to serve as your PAST-TC AdCom representative. ALAN TODD (M’92-SM’01) received an Honours “First” in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University, England in 1970. He performed his graduate work at Columbia University, New York, completing a PhD in Plasma Physics in 1974. Accepting an appointment at Princeton University, he studied the MagnetoHydroDynamic stability of plasmas before moving to Grumman Corporation in 1979. From 1985 on, his research interests evolved from plasmas to accelerator physics. He was the Chief Scientist for the SMDC CWDD and NPBSE Neutral Particle Beam programs. In September 1998, through a leveraged buyout, a group of former Northrop Grumman employees established Advanced Energy Systems (AES), Inc. He is the program manager for AES DOD, Security and FEL programs including the Fritz-Haber-Institut FEL project. Alan is the Co-President and a Director of the company.